Game of Thrones: Why we love to hate King Joffrey

The character everybody loves to hate

Most fictional villains have some form of redeeming quality or traumatic past event which makes them seem human beneath their megalomaniacal or bloodthirsty exterior. It’s rare for a character to be 100 percent bad. But is there anyone on TV as irredeemably evil as King Joffrey Baratheon, the one character in Game of Thrones who everybody loves to hate?